In a modern society such as today, Ourdaily lives are bombarded with things that require our undivided attention. An example would be meetings. These days people have a little time to spend on themselves, let alone on recreational activities, Such as communicating with friends. Texting, a revolutionary tool, has enabled people to minimize the time needed by the means of communication i.e. a phone call. However texting has come under fire for education for its potential to ruin our language. Texting should be seen, by educators, for its potential to enable students to experience and manipulate the English language to help you enhance versatility, fluency, and communicative skills.

Texting provides many advantages, such as people greatly reduce the time a call would take, especially if the call would go to voicemail. The unnecessary time taken to call, wait for the person to pick up, if they don't you may have to leave a voicemail, which some people rarely check, all of the above would be avoided with a quick concise message that would remain in the recipients' phones' home screen until checked. Texting would come in handy to any student, such as myself. Texting should be incorporated, the same way email has, into the core of education for the years to come. If one could ponder a procrastinating first-year college student writing their first term paper for their English class and the stuck on how to write a thesis. So she sends an email to her professor, only being forced to wait, in anxiety for a reply. So she decides to write the paper anyway, with a weak thesis. If she would only be inclined to send her professor a quick text to help with her thesis, would've made on difference in a mediocre essay with a week thesis, and a strong essay with a complete revised thesis. The same incorporation would work for me and the classes that I take, especially with AP physics, however writer John Humphrys would completely disagree with me. In his essay, I H8 TXT MSGS:...

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...dangerous it is when texting while driving.
Central Idea: Texting while driving can be fatal, distracting, and what can we do to prevent the danger of texting while driving.
Introduction: I would like to start by asking you this, do you value your life? Do you value the life of others? If so why put yourself and the life of other at risk by texting while driving? Good evening ladies and gentleman my name is Shanalee Robinson and tonight I will persuade you into thinking about why texting and driving is a dangerous mix. For instance, texting while driving can be fatal, and distracting, what can we do to reduce the danger of texting while driving.
Preview Statement: Texting while driving can be fatal, distracting, and what can we do to prevent the danger of texting while driving.
I. Fatal
A. Lack of concentration
B. Death
1. Split second
II. Distractions
A. Mental, manual, visual
1. Joseph L. Mathews stated
2. According to studies
B. Driving alone is a distraction
III. What can we do to reduce the danger
A. Educating others
B. Distraction.gov
C. Tips to stop the text
Conclusion: I will once again ask you this, do you value your life? Do you value the life of others? Remember you’re not only putting your own life at risk but you’re putting other lives at risk...

...Message: U R Rude
Texting.(IF) It is the new age way of communicating. With this new way to communicate new problems have arisen. People are texting while talking to others or while others are talking to them. Which brings up the question is it wrong? While many people think that it is wrong they may find themselves doing it on occasion. It is very easy to just say it is wrong without even looking at the other side of the argument. Surely it is acceptable to text in some situations. well it is not acceptable to text while you are talking to someone else.
Let us compare a texting conversation to a real conversation. If one was trying to talk to someone but he or she was also talking to someone else, it would be impossible for that person to be completely engaged in both conversations. This is just like texting. How can a person be fully engaged in any conversation while they are having a texting conversation with someone else? Also one wouldn’t even be fully focused on the conversation one is having over text when one is talking to someone else. That is just being rude to two people at once. Not only is texting while in conversation with someone else rude it is rude in other scenarios too. It would be considered rude in a movie theater, during a play, or on a date especially if one is not the one paying for these things. Imagine that you have just invited someone to go to the movies and...

...Jeff Simmons
Professor Martin
ENC 1101-0010
27 April 2010
How To Save A Life
At age 16, Brittany Johnson was a typical teenage girl; she had a loving family, a high school boyfriend, and her own car. However, Brittany will never get married, never have children, and never have her own house. Why? Brittany died September 7, 2009. The culprit — texting while driving.
While captaining her Chevrolet Lumina, Brittany decided to text her mother, distracting her from the road ahead. Instead of hitting the send button, Brittany’s life hit the end button, as she drove off an embankment, went airborne, and smashed into a utility pole (Friedman, pars. 2-4). Stories like Brittany’s raise questions over whether or not texting while driving should be banned. Nowadays it is growing exceedingly common to see drivers using the texting application while maneuvering their vehicle. To end the use of text messaging while operating a vehicle, legislatures need to create stern laws banning the use of the texting while driving, preventing tragedies such as Brittany Johnson’s from occurring on a daily basis.
Due to the teenagers’ obsessions with the new applications cell phones now offer, text messaging, they are more likely to be involved in a car accident where they find themselves distracted by either a received or sent text. In a report published by Matt Sundeen, a transportation expert at the National Conference of State...

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noun, plural theses
[thee-seez] (Show IPA)
1.
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
He vigorously defended his thesis on the causes of war.
2.
a subject for a composition or essay.
3.
a dissertation on a particular subject in which one has done original research, as one presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
4.
Music. the downward stroke in conducting; downbeat.
Compare arsis (def 1).
5.
Prosody.
a part of a metrical foot that does not bear the ictus or stress.
(less commonly) the part of a metrical foot that bears the ictus.
Compare arsis (def 2).
6.
Philosophy, See under Hegelian dialectic.
Origin
Middle English
Latin
Greek
1350-1400
1350-1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek thésis a setting down, something set down, equivalent to the- (stem of tithénai to put, set down) + -sis -sis
Can be confused
antithesis, synthesis, thesis.
dissertation, thesis.
Synonyms
1. theory, contention, proposal.
Hegelian dialectic
noun
1.
an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis)
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... Texting -- trading written messages over cellphones and other devices -- is changing the way people communicate, (Janet). Editor Debra Nussbaum writes in an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer that by the early 2000’s Americans sent more than two trillion texts a year, by 2007, texting had exceeded phone calls by a long shot. This has definitely made a huge difference in the way people communicate with each other. To get a letter in the mail is pretty rare today especially knowing that a text will reach a loved one tout de suite. This is most definitely the generation of instant gratification and having no patience, however, that can be a good thing in certain situations. Emergencies are also being relayed instantaneously as well along with important notifications from cell phone companies and colleges. Adults are jumping on the band wagon to stay in contact with their kids, who are most likely only going to communicate in a timely manner via text. There are many good things that have come out of texting, but as usual with all good things there can be downsides. Last year, David Miller, administrator of Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said 911 text messaging will spread around the state and that texting is one fundamental tool in the next generation of communication with 911. In today’s society, texting is a part of our culture, and even though there are many situations...

...Rosa Chavez
December 3rd 2012
English
Dr. L. Bongiovanni
Texting Research paper
As technology advanced, text messaging was designed as a quick and quirky way to speak to one another without actually speaking. Text messaging has become very popular in recent years, especially amongst teenagers and young adults but the outcome of this advancement is not all positive. Although texting makes communication faster and easier there are many problems that derive from texting alone. Texting and driving, cheating on tests, negative effects on social interaction and even suicide are some of the major issues caused by texts. Texting has become something big and beyond our control that is destroying the lives of many teens and young adults. Over 5,000 teens are killed yearly because of texting; this is a huge rate in death for something as simple and convenient as a text.
For many parents and teens texting can be a blessing and a curse. Most parents give their teens cellphones to be able to communicate easier with each other while at the same time giving them a little more freedom. However some teens do not like how connected they are with their parents with cellphones. At first parents seem to be thankful but over time will try to restrict how much time their child spends on their cellphone texting has become the preferred way to communicate with one another...

...Navarro4
How is texting affecting the literacy of teens
Awyanna Mayberry
Period :4
5/22/13
Text messaging can affect a person’s social skills, writing skills, driving skills. The money that people spend on phones and texting can cause financial hardship. Text messaging has begun to have a detrimental effect on teens writing skills. They use abbreviations, as most teenagers get used to short texting, some of their grades dropped due to the spelling errors they make. So many teens get used to abbreviating that they write that way. Teenager’s writing skills have turned into sentence fragments because of the limited space that they put texts into sentence. Vocabulary and grammar is also affecting their literacy. They seem to pay more attention to their phone than what the teacher is teaching. They seem to have the phones that will spell the word for them so they don’t have to worry about spelling. So when they at school they really don’t really pay attention to their spelling, therefore” lowering their i.q points lol”.
Text messaging is a method that has been adapted to teenage social skills. Most teen’s relationships are put to an end with the help of texts. Teens seem to break up with their girlfriend or boyfriend with just a text message. More teenagers seem to spend more time texting than to hanging out there their friends and family. It even can prevent teens from becoming confident. They may seem to think...

...skills has been linked to better communication, more relationships, efficiency and a better career. Nowadays, it seems that our social skills may be dwindling because of this new technology. Many individuals text from their cell phones in social settings. Cell phone texting is becoming a hindrance to social skills; Texting is a huge social problem!
Texting is the cause of many communication problems. Such as my boyfriend and I, we always have a fight when we have a long conversation by texting. The problem is misunderstanding, and lack of appreciation. Instead of face to face saying:“ Sorry, apology, love you”, we used texting as a way to avoid the risks of face to face. But we realized that an apology is really different. An apology is when we face each other, we see that we’ve hurt others, we feel bad, and we try to make it right later on. In the opposite way, we would never know how we have hurt and not appreciated each other.
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